Respect for Just Revenge

Respect: or, how respect for persons became respect for autonomy.

This article provides an intellectual archeology of how the term "respect" has functioned in the field of bioethics. I argue that over time the function of the term has shifted, with a significant turning point occurring in 1979. Prior to 1979, the term "respect" connoted primarily the notion of "respect for persons" which functioned as an umbrella which conferred protection to autonomous perso...

A prospective investigation of the relationship between just-world beliefs and the desire for revenge after September 11, 2001.

We prospectively examined the relationship between individuals' belief in a just world and their desire for revenge against the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States. Eighty-three undergraduate students who had completed a measure of just-world beliefs prior to the terrorist attacks were assessed approximately 2 months following the attacks. The more stron...

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus.

Natural revenge over cytomegalovirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Andrea Velardi UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA In this issue of Blood, Foley et al show that, in allogeneic hematopoietic transplant recipients, donor-derived natural killer (NK) cells respond to cytomegalovirus (CMV) by acquiring features that are reminiscen...

ADAMTS revenge on Eve?

Cognitive systems for revenge and forgiveness.

Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our ancestors regularly faced such adaptive problems (including homicide, bodily harm, theft, mate poaching, cuckoldry, reputational damage, sexual aggression, and the infliction of these costs on one’s offspring, mates, coali...